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Series  VII  MARCH,  1909 

Number  10 

OHIO  STATE  NORMAL  COLLEGE 
PUBLICATIONS 

TEACHERS’  BULLETIN  No.  10 


ENGLISH  IN  THE  GRADES 


BY 

FRANCES  GIBSON  RICHARD 


Published  Monthly  by  Miami  University 
And  entered  at  Postoffice , Oxford , Ohio,  as  Second  Class  Mail  Matter 


Publications  of  Ohio  State  Normal  College  of 
Miami  University. 


These  publications  form  a series  of  teachers’  bulletins  issued 
by  the  Ohio  State  Normal  College  of  Miami  University  for  the 
benefit  of  the  teachers  of  the  State,  and  in  the  interest  of  public 
education. 

All  requests  from  teachers  desiring  these  bulletins,  or  infor- 
mation regarding  educational  movements,  will  receive  prompt 
attention.  Address  Teachers’  Aid  Bureau,  Ohio  State  Normal 
College,  Oxford,  Ohio. 

List  of  teachers’  bulletins,  with  annotations : 

No.  i.  Nature-Study,  by  George  W.  Hoke,  12  pp.,  3 figs.,  Octo- 
ber, 1903.  Outline  for  study  of  trees,  weeds,  insects, 
birds,  etc.,  with  list  of  books  for  reference. 

No.  2.  Geography,  by  George  W.  Hoke,  15  pp.,  1 plate,  May, 
1904.  Treats  of  principles  of  Geography,  and  Regional 
Geography,  with  suggestive  exercises  for  class  work. 
No.  3.  Evolution  of  Public  Education  in  Ohio,  (A)  Legislation, 
by  Harvey  C.  Minnich,  20  pp.,  2 maps,  March,  1907.  A 
historical  account  of  school  legislation. 

No.  4.  The  Manual  Arts,  by  F.  C.  Whitcomb,  15  pp.,  April, 
1907.  Suggestions  as  to  course  of  study  and  equipment, 
with  special  reference  to  needs  of  small  school  systems. 
No.  5.  The  Soil  and  Its  Relation  to  Plants,  by  B.  M.  Davis, 
35  PP-,  6 figs.,  May,  1907.  Subject  presented  by  means 
of  simple  experiments. 

No.  6.  Evolution  of  Public  Education  in  Ohio,  (B)  Certifica- 
tion, by  Harvey  C.  Minnich,  23  pp.,  November,  1907. 
Continuation  of  No.  3. 

No.  7.  Experimental  Studies  of  Plant  Growth,  by  B.  M.  Davis, 
31  pp.,  17  figs.,  May,  1908.  Forty-two  experiments 
suitable  for  small  high  schools. 

No.  8.  Stories  For  the  Elementary  Grades,  by  Anna  E.  Logan, 
20  pp.,  September,  1908.  Arranged  with  special  refer- 
ence to  the  needs  of  teachers  introducing,  or  increasing 
story-telling  work  in  their  schools. 

No.  9.  Arithmetic  in  the  Grades,  by  T.  L.  Feeney,  19  pp.,  Janu- 
ary, 1909.  General  discussion  followed  by  outline  of 
course  of  study. 

No.  to.  English  in  the  Grades,  by  Frances  Gibson  Richard, 
26  pp.,  March,  1909.  Detailed  outline  including  titles 
of  selections  for  all  the  grades. 


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A Course  of  Study  in  English  for  the  Grades 
of  the  Public  Schools — By  Frances 
Gibson  Richard 


In  the  following  course  of  study  an  excess  of  material  is 
given  under  the  heads  of  Story  Work  and  Memorizing.  This  is 
done  advisedly,  because  it  seems  impracticable  to  lay  down  such 
work,  definite  in  amount  and  exactly  the  same  in  content,  for 
schools  in  various  and  widely  different  communities.  Some  range 
of  option  is  therefore  left  to  the  teacher.  All  the  work  suggested 
has  been  carefully  considered,  however,  and  is  believed  to  be 
valuable  for  Public  School  use. 

A COURSE  OF  STUDY  IN  ENGLISH  FOR 
THE  GRADES. 

First  Year. 

1.  Reading — io  lessons,  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Short  sentences  from  blackboard  and  chart. 

Later  from  primers  and  readers. 

Suggested  supplementary  reading: 

Arnold’s  Primer. 

Cyr’s  First  Reader. 

Blaisdell’s  First  Reader. 

Lights  of  Literature,  Book  I. 

Judson  and  Bender’s  First  Reader. 

2.  Spelling  and  zvord  drills — 5 lessons,  10  minutes  each,  per 
week. 

Phonic  drills. 

Rapid  recognition  of.  words  from  cards  and  blackboard. 
Spelling  by  letter  of  simple  words  from  cards  and  black- 
board. 

Writing  of  words  that  have  been  spelled  orally. 

3.  Memorizing — 3 lessons,  of  10  minutes  each,  per  week;  2 
for  learning  poems,  one  for  review. 

Selections  from  Mother  Goose,  as, 

Rock-a-bye  Baby. 

Ding  Dong  Bell. 


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Humpty  Dumpty. 

Tom  Thumb  Alphabet. 

Cock  Robin. 

Little  Bo-Peep. 

Jack  and  Jill. 

Mary’s  Lamb. 

Mother  Hubbard,  etc. 

Selections  from  The  Posy  Ring — K.  D.  Wiggin. 

The  Lost  Doll. 

Lady  Moon. 

The  Wonderful  World. 

The  Elf  and  the  Dormouse. 

Sleep,  Baby  Sleep.  (A  Christmas  Lullaby). 

What  Does  Little  Birdie  Say? 

Away  in  a Manger. 

Birdies  with  Broken  Wings. 

Part  of  Cradle  Hymn. 

A Birthday  Gift. 

Selections  from  the  Land  of  Song.  Vol.  I. 

Twinkle,  Twinkle,  Little  Star. 

I Love  Little  Pussy. 

The  Baby. 

The  Busy  Bee. 

Little  Birdie. 

Nursery  Song. 

The  Tree. 

Over  in  the  Meadow. 

The  New  Moon. 

Spring. 

Selections  from  Jordan’s  Mother  Song  and  Child  Song. 
Pussy  Willow. 

The  Ballad  of  Baby  Bunting. 

Selections  from  Whittier’s  Child  Life. 

Little  White  Lily. 

Little  Dandelion. 

Sleep,  Baby,  Sleep.  (Not  same  as  from  The  Posy 
Ring). 


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Selections  from  Love  joy’s  Nature  in  Verse. 

They  Didn’t  Think. 

Three  Little  Bugs. 

The  Little  Leaves. 

April  Fools. 

Lady  Bug,  Lady  Bug. 

If  Ever  I See. 

May. 

4.  Story  Work — 4 lessons,  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Little  Black  Sambo. 

The  Little  Red  Hen — Jingle  Book. 

The  Pig  Brother — Richards. 

The  Legend  of  Hiawatha — M.  L.  Pratt. 

Hbw  the  Robin  Got  His  Red  Breast — Fox  Indian 
Primer. 

Lambikin — Jacobs’  Indian  Fairy  Tales. 

The  Story  of  the  Mayflower — Five  Little  Strangers. 
The  First  Thanksgiving — “ “ “ 

The  Ant  and  the  Grasshopper — Aesop. 

The  Wind  and  the  Sun — 

The  Fox  and  the  Grapes — “ 

The  Birth  of  Christ. 

The  Visit  of  the  Wisemen. 

The  Flight  into  Egypt. 

The  Four  Winds — Andersen. 

The  Snow  Man — 

Wolf  and  the  Seven  Kids — Grimm. 

Straw,  Coal  and  the  Bean — “ 

The  Pancake — Brown  and  Bailey  Jingle  Primer. 

Go  to  Sleep  Story- 

How  They  Built  the  House — 

The  Old  Woman  and  Her  Pig — 

Simple  Stories  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

His  birth-place — with  pictures. 

His  struggle  for  books  and  schooling. 

The  story  of  Lincoln  and  the  pig. 

First  voyage  down  the  Mississippi. 

Why  we  celebrate  his  birthday. 


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Simple  Stories  of  George  Washington. 

His  birth-place — with  pictures. 

Surveying  in  the  wilderness. 

Washington  as  an  Indian  fighter. 

Why  we  celebrate  his  birthday. 

Noah — the  Flood. 

Jacob’s  Vision. 

Joseph. 

(a)  Sold  into  slavery. 

(b)  A great  ruler. 

(c)  Found  by  his  brothers. 

The  Infant  Moses. 

Daniel  in  the  Lion’s  Den. 

Elijah  and  the  Ravens. 

Jonah. 

The  Easter  Story. 

The  Pea  Blossom — Andersen. 

The  Pine  Tree — 

The  Roses  and  the  Sparrow — 

Spring  and  Her  Helpers — Poulsson — In  the  Child’s 
World. 

Cotton  Field  Stories—  “ “ “ 

The  Nest  of  Many  Colors—  “ “ " 

The  Story  of  a Breeze — McRoy — In  the  Child’s 
World. 

The  Story  of  the  Frost — K.  D.  Wiggin — Story 
Hour. 

The  Foolish  Weather  Vane — E.  Harrison — In 
Storyland. 

How  the  Crickets  Brought  Good  Luck — Whittier’s 
Child  Life. 

Brave  Little  Taylor — Lang — The  Blue  Fairy  Book. 
Goody  Two  Shoes— Poulsson— In  the  Child’s  World. 
How  Patsy  Gave  Thanks—  “ “ “ 

Legend  of  St.  Christopher. 

St.  George  and  the  Dragon. 

How  Little  Cedric  became  a Knight — E.  Harrison 
— In  Storyland. 


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Echo  and  Narcissus,  “D’Ooge’s  Helps.” 

Arachne — “ “ 

Hyacinthus — “ “ 

Iris— 

The  Rainbow — Hebrew  Story  of  the  Flood. 

The  Country  Mouse  and  the  City  Mouse — Aesop. 
The  Lion  and  the  Mouse — 

The  World  and  the  Shepherd — 

The  Crow  and  the  Pitcher. 

Jack  and  the  Beanstalk — two  parts. 

5.  Written  language  exercises — by  end  of  first  year — ten  min- 
utes per  day. 

Lessons  based  upon  the  reading,  pictures,  poetry, 
stories  and  actual  experiences. 

Ground  to  be  covered. 

Very  short  sentences. 

Capital  at  the  beginning  of  the  sentence. 

Period  at  end . 

Interrogation  point  at  end. 

Second  Year. 

1.  Reading — 10  lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week.  From 
Second  Reader. 

Suggested  supplementary  reading : 

Cyr’s  Second  Reader. 

Bass’s  Nature  Reader. 

Arnold  and  Gilbert’s  Stepping  Stones  to  Litera- 
ture. Second  Year. 

Jones’s  Second  Reader — Ginn. 

Williams’s  Choice  Literature.  Book  2,  A.  B.  C. 
Rapid  recognition  and  reproduction  of  sentences  from 
reader,  blackboard  or  cards. 

Re-expression  of  thought  after  reading. 

Much  reading  from  supplementary  books. 

Occasional  acting  of  a lesson  that  lends  itself  to  drama- 
tization. 

2.  Spelling  and  word-drills—  5 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per 
week. 

Phonic  drills. 


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Spelling  of  all  new  words. 

Marking  division  into  syllables  by  pausing  after  the  syl- 
lable. 

Written  spelling  of  all  new  words  taught  orally. 
Spelling  of  columns  of  words  having  a common  phonic 
element. 

3.  Memorizing — 3 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 
Selections  from  Child’s  Garden  of  Verse. 

Where  go  the  Boats. 

The  Wind. 

Singing. 

The  Swing. 

v My  Bed  is  a Boat. 

Selections  from  Love  joy’s  Nature  in  Verse. 

If  I were  a Sunbeam. 

Dutch  Lullaby. 

How  the  Leaves  Came  Down. 

Who  Likes  the  Rain? 

Selections  from  The  Posy  Ring. 

Thanksgiving  Day. 

Night  and  Day. 

Christmas  Song. 

The  Christmas  Trees. 

Selections  from  The  Land  of  Song. 

The  Snowdrop. 

The  Brown  Thrush. 

The  Honey  Bee. 

Lullaby  of  an  Infant  Chief. 

Seven  Times  One. 

Selections  from  the  works  of  Eugene  Field. 

Wynken,  Blynken  and  Nod. 

The  Sugar  Plum  Tree. 

The  Night  Wind. 

The  Duel. 

Selections  from  the  Cary  Sisters. 

An  April  Welcome. 

Don’t  Give  Up. 

A Lesson  of  Mercy. 


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What  a Bird  Taught. 

Our  Heroes. 

Selections  from  Longfellow. 

The  Children’s  Hour. 

The  April  Shower. 

Selections  from  Whittier’s  Child  Life. 

Jack  Frost. 

The  Fairy  Folk. 

The  Crow’s  Children. 

The  Blue  Bird. 

Selections  from  Tennyson. 

Minnie  and  Winnie. 

The  Lullaby. 

Selections  from  In  the  Child’s  World. 

The  Sunbeams. 

Piccola. 

Selection  from  George  Eliot. 

Spring  Song — The  Posy  Ring. 

3.  Story  Work — 4 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Clytie  — the  sunflower  — Nature  Myths  from 
D’Ooge’s  Helps. 

Tithonus — the  Grasshopper — 

Daphne — the  Laurel  tree — 

Rhodophe — the  Rose — 

Hermes  and  the  Flocks  of  Apollo — “ 

Cinderella. 

Dick  Whittington  and  His  Cat — 2 parts. 

The  Ant  and  the  Dove — Aesop. 

The  Donkey  and  the  Salt — “ 

The  Shepherd’s  Boy — 

The  Lark  and  Her  Young  Ones — Aesop. 

The  Fir  Tree — Andersen. 

The  Flax— 

The  Ice  Maiden — “ 

The  Frog  King — Grimm. 

The  Hedgehog  and  the  Hare — “ 

The  Wonderful  Musician — 

Boston  Thanksgiving  Story — In  the  Child’s  World. 


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The  Puritan  Child — Five  Little  Strangers. 
Christmas  in  the  Barn — In  the  Child’s  World. 

The  Little  Match  Girl — Andersen. 

The  Christmas  Cuckoo — The  Wonderful  Chair. 
New  Year’s  Bargain — Susan  Coolidge. 

How  the  Spark  of  Fire  was  Saved — Fox  Indian 
Primer. 

Little  Duck  and  the  North  Wind — 

Kablu,  the  Aryan  Boy — Ten  Boys. 

The  Ugly  Duckling — Andersen.  (two  parts). 

Stories  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

(a)  Life  in  a Half  Faced  Camp. 

(b)  The  Death  of  Nancy  Hanks  Lincoln. 

(c)  Building  a House  in  Illinois. 

Stories  of  George  Washington. 

(a)  Washington’s  journey  to  the  French 
Forts. 

(b)  George  and  Martha  Washington  in  their 
home,  (pictures). 

Lord  Cornwallis’s  Knee  Buckles — In  the  Child’s 
World. 

Peter  Rabbit — Potter. 

Patsy,  the  Calf — More  Mother  Stories. 

Little  Boy— 

Midas,  or  the  Golden  Touch — The  Wonder  Book. 
Pandora— 

The  Sleeping  Beauty  in  the  Wood — Scudder’s  Book 
of  Folk  Stories. 

Tom  Thumb — Scudder’s  Book  of  Folk  Stories. 

Puss  in  Boots — “ 

The  Eastern  Hare — Scudder’s  Book  of  Tales. 

The  General  Thaw — Parables  from  Nature. 

Law  of  the  Spruce  World — 

Trusty  John — Lang — Blue  Fairy  Book. 

Prince  Hyacinth  and  the  Dear  Little  Princess — 
Blue  Fairy  Book. 

Little  Golden  Hood — Lang — Blue  Fairy  Book. 

Jack,  the  Giant  Killer—  “ 

The  Daisy’s  First  Winter — H.  B.  Stowe — Stories 
for  the  Young. 


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Squirrels  that  Lived  in  a House — H.  B.  Stowe — 
Stories  for  the  Young. 

Nutcrackers  of  Nutcracker  Lodge — H.  B.  Stowe — 
Stories  for  the  Young. 

Letters  from  a Cat — Jackson  Cat  Stories. 

Mammy  Tittleback  and  her  Family — Jackson  Cat 
Stories. 

The  Minnow’s  Adventures — In  the  Child’s  World. 
Mrs.  Flyaway — “ “ “ “ 

Little  Hero  of  Haarlem—  “ “ 

Stories  selected  from — 

Each  and  All  and  Seven  Little  Sisters — Jane 
Andrews. 

4.  Written  language  exercises — 5 lessons  of  10  minutes  each 
per  week. 

Correlated  as  in  first  year. 

Ground  to  be  covered : 

The  simple  sentences. 

New  forms  of  capitalization. 

(a)  Child’s  own  name  and  its  substitute  “I.” 

(b)  Child’s  own  address  with  abbreviations. 

(c)  Other  persons  and  places. 

(d)  Dates,  days  of  the  week,  months. 

(e)  Capitals  in  copying  verses. 

The  writing  of  simplest  form  of  letter. 

Addressing  of  envelope. 

The  writing  of  proverbs  and  adages  as  models  of  sim- 
ple sentences. 

Third  Year. 

1 . Reading — 10  lessons  of  20  minutes  each,  per  week. 

From  Second  Reader  and  Supplementary  books. 
Careful  drills  upon  new  words  before  reading. 

Silent  reading  followed  by  oral  reproduction. 

Emphasis  by  pitch,  quantity  and  stress. 

Drills  upon  words  frequently  mispronounced. 

Suggested  supplementary  reading: 

Eggleston’s  Stories  of  Great  Americans  for 
Little  Americans. 


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Scudder’s  Fables  and  Folk  Stories. 

Blaisdell’s  Third  Reader. 

2.  Spelling — 5 lessons,  io  minutes  each,  per  week. 

New  words  from  other  lessons. 

Proper  names  and  abbreviations. 

Compound  words  with  and  without  the  hyphen. 
Familiar  words  of  similar  sound  but  different  meaning 
and  spelling,  as,  to,  two,  too. 

Written  spelling  of  all  new  words  taught  orally. 

3.  Memorizing — 5 lessons,  10  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Selections  from  Love  joy’s  Nature  in  Verse : 

Autumn  Song. 

Frost  Pictures. 

October’s  Bright  Blue  Weather. 

Selections  from  Whittier’s  Child  Life : 

A Child’s  Thought  of  God. 

Good  Night  and  Good  Morning. 

The  Farmyard  Song. 

Little  Dandelion. 

Selections  from  Whittier’s  Poems: 

The  Barefoot  Boy — a part. 

In  School  Days. 

The  Corn  Song. 

Selections  from  Longfellow’s  Poems: 

The  Children’s  Hour. 

The  Children. 

The  Village  Blacksmith. 

Selections  from  Eliot’s  Poetry  for  Children: 

Old  Christmas. 

What  the  Wind  Brings. 

Selections  from  Little-Folk  Lyrics: 

Kris  Kringle. 

Snowflakes. 

Birds’  Music. 

The  Four  Winds. 

Selections  from  The  Land  of  Song,  Vol.  I. : 

The  Mountain  and  the  Squirrel. 

Discontent. 


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Selections  from  Wordsworth's  Poems: 

The  Rainbow. 

To  a Butterfly. 

The  Kitten  and  the  Falling  Leaves. 

We  are  Seven. 

Selections  from  Open  Sesame,  Vol.  I. : 

The  Owl. 

The  Sandpiper. 

The  Nightingale  and  the  Glow  Worm. 

Lady  Bird,  Lady  Bird. 

Baucis  and  Philemon. 

Selections  from  Alice  Cary’s  Poems : 

April. 

A Fable  of  Cloudland. 

Selections  from  Mary  Howitt’s  Poems: 

The  Oak  Tree. 

Buttercups  and  Daisies. 

The  Spider  and  the  Fly. 

4.  Story-Work — 5 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 
Ulysses — D’Ooge’s  Helps. 

(a)  Polyphemus. 

(b)  The  Bag  of  Winds. 

(c)  Circe. 

(d)  Calypso’s  Island. 

(e)  The  Phaeacean  Land. 

(f)  Ulysses’s  Arrival  at  Home. 

Grace  Darling.  ] 

William  Tell.  | 

Arnold  Winkelried.  j-  Fifty  Famous  Stories 

Sir  Humphrey  Gilbert.  | Retold. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney.  J 

The  Deluge. 

Indian — Judd’s  Wigwam  Stories. 

Hebrew — Genesis. 

Greek — D’Ooge’s  Helps. 

Brownie  and  the  Cook.  'IBook  3. 

The  Silver  Shilling.  ^Williams’ 

The  Steadfast  Tin  Soldier.  J Choice  Literature. 


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The  Iron  Stove. 

Fair  One  with  Golden  Locks.  I Craik 
The  Frog  Prince.  [ Fairy  Book. 

Prince  Cherry. 


Captain  Miles  Standish. 

Ruth  Endicott. 

At  the  Back  of  the  North  Wind — McDonald. 


The  Hare  and  the  Tortoise. 
The  Fox  and  the  Goat. 

The  Wolf  and  the  Lamb. 
The  Gnat  and  the  Ox. 


Aesop. 


Woden — Norse  Tales — Mabie. 


The  Other  Wise  Man. 
The  First  Christmas 
Tree. 


Van  Dyke — The  Blue 
Flower. 


Christmas,  or  the  Golden  Fairy .~]  H.  B.  Stowe — 
History  of  Tip  Top.  j*  Stories  for 

Hum,  the  Song  of  Buzz.  J the  Young. 


The  Cruise  of  the  Dolphin.  } Whittier’s  Child 
Boots  at  the  Holly  Tree  Inn.}  Life  in  Prose. 


Aladdin.  \ Chapman’s  Arabian  Nights. 
Ali  Baba.} 


Cadmus,  j Tanglewood  Tales. 

Jason.  } 

Apples  of  Hesperides.} 

The  Gorgon’s  Head.  } Wonder  Book. 


Callisto  and  Areas — Greek  Mythology. 

The  Great  Bear — Judd’s  Wigwam  Stories. 

The  Wooden  Horse — Cook’s  Story  of  Ulysses. 


Stories  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 


(a)  The  rail-splitter. 

(b)  Soldier  in  the  Black  Hawk  War. 
Stories  of  George  Washington. 

Washington’s  Elm. 

Winter  at  Valley  Forge. 

The  Surprise  at  Trenton. 

Mount  Vernon. 


Hebrew  Stories : 

David  and  Goliath. 
Job. 


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The  Death  of  Moses. 
Samson. 


The  Snow  Man. 

The  Beetle. 

A Drop  of  Water. 
The  Happy  Family. 
The  Toad. 


►Andersen. 


How  the  Indian  Corn  Grows. 
One  of  God’s  Storehouses. 
Talk  of  the  Trees  that  Stand 
in  a Village  Street. 
Story  of  the  Amber  Beads. 
The  Singing,  Soaring  Lark. 
Strong  Hans. 

Faithful  John. 


| Andrews’  Stories 
► Mother  Nature 
Told. 


► Grimm. 


Findelkind. 
Child  of  Urbina. 


Ouida, 


in  Bimbi. 


Bluebeard — Lang — Blue  Fairy  Book. 


Androcles  and  the  Lion.)  Lang — Animal 
Story  of  the  Dog  Oscar  j Story  Book. 


5.  Written  language  exercises — 5 lessons  of  15  minutes  each, 
per  week. 

The  enlarged  simple  sentence. 

Comma,  apostrophe,  quotation  marks. 

Distinguish  in  Reader  paragraph,  chapter,  section,  verse, 
stanza. 

Margins — indentation. 

One-paragraph  work  in  writing. 

Letter-writing — Addressing  of  envelopes. 

New  abbreviations. 


Fourth  Year. 


1 . Reading — 10  lessons  of  20  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Fourth  Reader  and  supplementary  material. 
Explanation  of  allusions. 

Rapid  sight-reading ; oral  reproduction. 

Silent  reading. 

Reading  of  dialogue — parts  assigned  to  various  pupils. 
Suggested  supplementary  material: 

Arnold  and  Gilbert’s  Stepping  Stones  to  Literature. 
Blaisdell’s  Child  Life  in  Literature. 


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Waste  Not,  Want  Not,  Stories. 

Bee  People — M.  W.  Morley. 

Black  Beauty. 

Williams’  Choice  Literature — Book  I,  Intermediate. 

2.  Spelling — 5 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 

New  words  from  other  lessons. 

Proper  names. 

Work  both  written  and  oral. 

3.  Memorizing — 5 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Selections  from  Love  joy’s  Poetry  of  the  Seasons. 

Birds  in  Summer — Howitt. 

Faded  Leaves — A.  Cary. 

The  Ivy  Green. 

Selections  from  Alice  Cary : 

The  Gray  Swan. 

Work. 

Nobility. 

Selections  from  Phoebe  Cary : 

The  Leak  in  the  Dike. 

Nobody’s  Child. 

Selections  from  Love  joy’s  Poetry  of  the  Seasons: 

N ovember — Hood. 

A National  Flower — Larcom. 

Selections  from  Open  Sesame : 

The  Fountain — Lowell. 

Landing  of  the  Pilgrims — Mrs.  Hemans. 

Selections  from  Whittier’s  Poems : 

New  England  in  Winter. 

Selections  from  the  Land  of  Song: 

Night  with  a Wolf — Taylor. 

The  Northern  Seas — Howitt. 

The  Palm  Tree — Whittier. 

Selections  from  Philips  Brook’s  Poems : 

Oh,  Little  Town  of  Bethlehem. 

Selections  from  Lucy  Larcom’s  Poems : 

New  Year’s  Song. 


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Selections  from  Alice  Cary : 

January. 

Selections  from  Longfellow’s  Poems : 

The  Arrow  and  the  Song. 

Serenade  from  the  Spanish  Student. 

Challenge  of  the  God  Thor. 

The  Rainy  Day. 

The  Rainbow. 

Selections  from  O.  W.  Holmes’s  Poems : 

Ode  for  Washington’s  Birthday. 

A Rhymed  Lesson — selections  from. 

To  the  Katy-Did. 

Selections  from  Lovejoy’s  Nature  in  Verse: 

Song  of  the  Spring. 

The  Voice  of  the  Grass. 

The  Lily  of  the  Valley. 

Selections  from  Whittier’s  Poems : 

March. 

The  Mayflower. 

Selections  from  the  Land  of  Song: 

Sweet  Peas — Keats. 

Three  Bells — Whittier. 

The  Northern  Seas — Howitt. 

The  Daffodils — Wordsworth. 

Selections  from  Lovejoy’s  Poetry  of  the  Seasons: 
Woodman,  Spare  that  Tree — George  P.  Morris. 
In  April — Jackson. 

4.  Story  Work — 5 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 
Romulus  and  Remus. 

Horatius — Macaulay’s  Lays  of  Ancient  Rome. 
Cincinnatus. 

Perseus.  } Greek  Heroes — 

Theseus.  \ Charles  Kingsley. 

The  Pied  Piper  of  Hamelin — Browning. 

The  King  of  the  Golden  River — Ruskin. 

Robin  Hood — McSpadden. 

Alice  in  Wonderland — Carroll. 

The  Nurnberg  Stove — Ouida. 


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A Dog  of  Flanders — Ouida. 

Sinbad,  the  Sailor — Heart  of  Oak  Books,  Vol.  III. 

Awakening  of  Brynhild.)  Bradish’s  Old  Norse 
Balder’s  Death.  f Stories. 

Benjamin  Franklin — Eggleston. 

The  Birds’  Christmas  Carol. 

Thor  and  the  Frost  Giants — Mabie. 

The  Little  Lame  Prince — Mulock. 

Other  stories  from  the  History,  Geography,  Nature 
Study  and  other  work  not  strictly  literary. 

5.  Written  language  exercises — 5 lessons  of  20  minutes  each, 
per  week. 

Work  based  upon  and  correlated  with  other  subjects. 
The  simple  sentence. 

Number — irregular  plurals. 

Possessives,  singular  and  plural. 

Contractions  using  the  apostrophe. 

Sentence  punctuation — period,  interrogation  point,  ex- 
clamation point. 

Attention  to  margins,  indentations  and  other  formali- 
ties of  manuscript. 

One-paragraph  form  of  composition. 

Fifth  Year. 

1 . Reading — 5 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Fifth  Reader  and  supplementary  works. 

Explanation  of  allusions,  recognition  of  personification 
and  metaphor,  treatment  of  inversions. 

Occasional  oral  reproduction  of  the  entire  lesson. 
Suggested  supplementary  and  outside  reading: 

Brooks’s  Fifth  Reader. 

Pioneer  Stories — McMurray. 

A Book  of  Legends — Scudder. 

Tanglewood  Tales — Hawthorne. 

The  Jungle  Books  (First  and  Second) — Kipling. 
Wee  Willie  Winkie— 

Ten  Boys — Andrews. 

Boys  of  ’76 — Coffin. 

Fables  and  Folk-Lore — Scudder. 


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Thirty  More  Famous  Stories — Baldwin. 

Two  Girls  in  China — Kraut. 

Alice’s  Visit  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands — “ 

Robin  Hood — McSpadden. 

The  Wizard  of  Oz — Baum. 

South  America — Carpenter. 

Stories  of  Animal  Life — Holder. 

2.  Spelling — 5 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Words  from  other  lessons  of  the  grade. 

Homonyms,  synonyms  for  dictated  words. 

Use  of  the  dictionary  for  meaning  and  pronunciation. 
Attention  to  capitals,  syllables  and  the  hyphen. 

3.  Memorizing — 2 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 

A Fable — Emerson. 

Rain  in  Summer — Longfellow. 

The  Old  Clock  on  the  Stairs — 

Woods  in  Winter — 

Sunshine  on  the  Hills — 

Excelsior — 

In  School  Days — Whittier. 

October — “ 

The  Brook — Tennyson. 

The  Song  of  the  Chattahoochee — Lanier. 

The  Three  Fishers — Kingsley. 

Across  the  Sands  of  Dee — “ 

The  Old,  Old  Song— 

The  Landing  of  the  Pilgrims — Hemans. 

Under  the  Greenwood  Tree — Shakespeare. 

Little  Boy  Blue — Field. 

A Dream  of  Springtime — “ 

The  Captain’s  Daughter — J.  T.  Fields. 

O Captain,  My  Captain — Whitman. 

The  American  Flag — Drake. 

Green  Be  the  Turf  Above  Thee — Halleck. 

The  Rainbow — Wordsworth. 

Lucy  Gray — 

March — 

The  First  Bluebird— Riley. 

The  Cataract  of  Lodore — Southey. 


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San  Grail — H.  H.  Jackson. 

Down  to  Sleep — “ 

The  Mystery  of  the  Seed — Larcom. 

A Strip  of  Blue — “ 

The  Oak — Lowell. 

The  Maple — “ 

The  Yellow  Violet  — Bryant. 

Robert  of  Lincoln — “ 

4.  Composition — 5 lessons  of  20  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Written — two-paragraph  form  by  the  end  of  the  year. 
Subject  matter  from  other  lessons — occasionally  from 
experience  outside  the  classroom.  Also  original 
stories,  letter  writing,  folding,  inserting. 

Oral — Conversation,  stories  by  pupils,  lessons  in  Gram- 
mar. The  complex  sentence — the  noun  as  subject 
and  object.  The  verb  as  predicate.  The  adjective, 
adverb,  preposition,  conjunction  and  interjection. 
Exercises  in  the  placing  of  modifiers. 

Sixth  Year. 

1 . Reading — 5 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Reader  and  supplementary  masterpieces.  Vocal  inter- 
pretation, silent  reading,  reproduction,  discussion  of 
allusion,  personification,  metaphor  and  simile. 
Suggested  readings : 

Lamb’s  Tales  from  Shakespeare. 

Heart  of  Oak — Book  IV — Norton. 

The  Story  of  Troy — Clarke. 

Rab  and  His  Friends — Brown. 

Jo’s  Boys — Alcott. 

A Christmas  Carol — Dickens. 

Indian  Boyhood — Eastman. 

The  Odyssey — Palmer’s  Translation. 

Four  American  Inventors — Perry. 

The  Devil  and  Tom  Walker — Irving. 

Feather  Top — Hawthorne. 

Little  Men — Alcott. 

Little  Women — “ 

Snowbound — Whittier. 


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A Book  of  Golden  Deeds — Yonge. 

American  Hero  Stories — Roosevelt-Lodge. 

2.  Spelling — 5 lessons  of  io  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Stems,  prefixes,  suffixes. 

-Homonyms,  antonyms,  synonyms. 

Use  of  the  dictionary  for  spelling,  pronunciation  and 
meaning. 

Diacriticals  at  the  last  of  the  year. 

3 . Memorizing — 2 lessons  of  25  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Abou  Ben  Adhem — Hunt. 

Concord  Hymn — Emerson. 

The  First  Snowfall — Lowell. 

The  Last  Leaf — Holmes. 

The  Chambered  Nautilus — Holmes. 

A Song  of  the  Camp — Bayard  Taylor. 

Lines  to  a Waterfowl — Bryant. 

The  Day  Is  Done  — Longfellow. 

Hymn  to  the  Night — 

The  Rhodora — Emerson. 

The  Fool’s  Prayer — Sill. 

The  Night  has  a Thousand  Eyes — Bourdillon. 
Break,  Break,  Break — Tennyson. 

Ring  Out,  Wild  Bells— 

The  Bugle  Song — 

The  Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade — 

Crossing  the  Bar — 

The  Garden  Song — 

To  Helen  — Poe. 

Annabel  Lee — “ 

The  Bells—  “ 

Breathes  There  a Man — Scott. 

The  Raven — Poe. 

The  Stirrup  Cup — Lanier. 

An  Evening  Song — “ 

The  Skylark — Hogg. 

Those  Evening  Bells — Moore. 

The  Last  Rose  of  Summer — “ 

To  Thomas  Moore — Byron. 

The  Isles  of  Greece — “ 

She  Dwelt  Among  the  Untrodden  Ways — Words- 
worth. 


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The  Solitary  Reaper — Wordsworth. 

Sonnet  Composed  upon  Westminster  Bridge  — 
Wordsworth. 

We  Are  Seven — Wordsworth. 

4.  Composition — 2 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Oral  and  written  reproduction  of  lessons  of  the  grade. 
Descriptions  of  natural  scenery,  buildings,  etc. 
Character  sketches,  original  stories  combining  nar- 
ration and  description.  Tropical  outlines,  para- 
graphing. Letter-writing,  folding  and  inserting. 

5 . Grammar — 3 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Sentences — simple,  complex  and  compound. 

Phrase,  clause  and  sentence — how  used. 

Verbs — principal  parts,  conjugation,  auxiliaries. 
Conjunctions — co-ordinate  and  subordinate. 

Seventh  Year. 

1 . Reading — 4 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 
Masterpieces : 

A Child’s  Dream  of  a Star — Dickens. 

Rip  Van  Winkle — Irving. 

The  Legend  of  Sleepy  Hollow — “ 

The  Spectre  Bridegroom — 

A Dog  of  Flanders — Ouida. 

The  Gold  Bug — Poe. 

The  Black  Cat—  “ 

A Manuscript  Found  in  a Bottle — Poe. 

The  Great  Stone  Face — Hawthorne. 

The  Great  Carbuncle — 

The  Gray  Champion — 

The  Courtship  of  Miles  Standish — Longfellow. 
Evangeline — 

The  Skeleton  in  Armor — 

King  Robert  of  Sicily — 

The  Revenge — Tennyson. 

The  Siege  of  Lucknow — 

The  Relief  of  Lucknow — Whittier. 


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Markheim — Stevenson. 

Treasure  Island — “ 

Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde— 

Undine — De  la  Motte  Fouque. 

Picciola — Saintine. 

2.  Spelling — 2 lessons  of  20  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Selected  words  and  synonyms. 

Words  often  mis-spelled  and  mis-pronounced. 

Selected  dictation  exercises  from  the  daily  press  and 
from  standard  authors. 

3.  Memorizing — 2 lessons  of  15  minutes  each,  per  week. 

Hark,  Hark,  the  Lark — Shakespeare. 

The  Coronach — Scott — Lady  of  the  Lake. 

The  Slumber  Song — “ “ 

The?  Boat  Song- 

Tears,  Idle  Tears — Tennyson. 

First  four  stanzas  of  the  Sky-Lark — Shelley. 

Rose  Aylmer — Landor. 

Drink  to  Me  Only  with  Thine  Eyes — Jonson. 

It  is  Not  Growing  Like  a Tree — “ 

Virtue — Herbert. 

To  the  Virgins  to  Make  Much  of  Time — Herrick. 
Stanzas  from  To  Althea  from  Prison  and  To  Lu- 
casta  on  Going  to  the  Wars — Lovelace. 

Sonnet  on  His  Blindness — Milton. 

A Lament — Shelley. 

The  Battle  of  Blenheim — Southey. 

Of  Such  is  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven — Swinburne. 
Abraham  Lincoln — Tom  Taylor — Victorian  Authol- 
ogy. 

Abraham  Lincoln — Lowell — Commemoration  Ode. 
Abraham  Lincoln — Bryant. 

Abraham  Lincoln — R.  H.  Stoddard. 

The  Song  of  the  Shirt — Hood. 

The  Man  With  the  Hoe — Markham. 

The  Cry  of  the  Children  — Mrs.  Browning. 

He  Giveth  His  Beloved  Sleep — “ 

My  Heart’s  in  the  Highlands — Burns. 

Auld  Lang  Syne — 


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John  Anderson,  My  Jo — 


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Highland  Mary — 
Bonnie  Doone — 
Honest  Poverty — 
My  Psalm — 


Whittier. 


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The  Eternal  Goodness — 


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Oft  in  the  Stilly  Night — Moore. 

I Remember,  I Remember — Hood. 


4 . Composition — 4 lessons  of  20  minutes  each,  per  week. 


Narration — the  pupil’s  own  experience.  Original  stories 
employing  a structure  plan  as  follows : 


Time. 

Place.  f Natural  Scenery. 

Local  coloring.  ■{  Customs. 


[ Dialects. 


(b)  Rise  of  incident  leading  up  to  a 

(c)  Crisis  (or  climax). 

(d)  Outcome. 

Paragraphs  upon  current  events  gleaned  from  the  daily 
papers.  Descriptions  of  persons  and  places.  Ex- 
position in  writing  reviews  of  the  science  studies  of 
the  grade.  Business  letters. 


5.  Grammar — 4 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 


Classification  of  sentences.  Case.  The  pronoun  in  full. 
Government  and  agreement  in  full.  Voice,  mode, 
transitive  and  intransitive  verbs.  Weak  and  strong, 
redundant,  defective  and  other  classes  of  verbs. 
Complete  conjugation. 


Eighth  Year. 


1 . Reading — 4 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 


Masterpieces — Three  readings. 

First,  for  general  conception. 

Second,  for  more  careful  study  of  structure. 

Third,  for  emphasis  upon  the  most  beautiful  or 


striking  or  important  parts  of  the  production. 


Suggested  material : 

The  Vision  of  Sir  Launfal. 


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Wandering  Willie’s  Tale — Scott — Redgauntlet. 
Gray’s  Elegy. 

The  Fall  of  the  House  of  Usher — Poe. 

The  Ambitious  Guest — Hawthorne. 

The  Deserted  Village — Goldsmith. 

The  Coming  of  Arthur — Tennyson. 

Sir  Galahad— 

The  Holy  Grail— 

Abbotsford — Irving. 

Dolph  Heyliger — 

The  Rose  of  the  Alhambra — “ 

Westminster  Abbey — “ 

The  Cricket  on  the  Hearth — Dickens. 

The  Hoosier  Schoolmaster — Eggleston. 

The  Man  Without  a Country — Hale. 

The  Other  Wise  Man — Van  Dyke. 

The  Lady  of  Shalott — Tennyson. 

The  Prisoner  of  Chillon — Byron. 

The  First  Christmas  Tree — Van  Dyke — The  Blue 
Flower. 

Tom  Brown  at  Oxford — Hughes. 

Julius  Caesar — Shakespeare. 

The  Merchant  of  Venice — 

2 . Spelling — 2 lessons  of  20  minutes  each,  per  week. 

All  diacriticals  according  to  the  International  or  some 
other  standard  dictionary. 

Rapid  drills.  Selected  words  for  enlarging  the  pupil’s 
vocabulary. 

3.  Memorizing — 1 lesson  of  30  minutes,  per  week. 

Recessional — Kipling. 

The  Year’s  at  the  Spring — Browning — Pippa 
Passes. 

Evelyn  Hope — Browning. 

Prospice — “ 

On  the  Receipt  of  My  Mother’s  Picture — Cowper. 
Alexander  Selkirk — 

The  Loss  of  the  Royal  George — 

Thanatopsis — Bryant. 


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The  Fringed  Gentian — Bryant. 

To  a Mountain  Daisy — Burns. 

To  a Mouse — “ 

Columbus — Miller. 

The  Lily-lined  River  of  Rest — “ 

The  Dirge — Cymbeline — Shakespeare. 

The  Haunted  Palace — Poe — House  of  Usher. 

How  Sleep  the  Brave — Collins. 

The  Lost  Leader — Browning. 

To  Age — Landor. 

I Strove  with  None — “ 

Winter  Rain  — Christina  Rossetti. 

Three  Seasons — “ “ 

Say  Not  the  Struggle  Naught  Availeth — Clough. 
The  Salt  of  the  Earth — Swinburne. 

Hohenlinden — Campbell. 

To  Virgil — Tennyson. 

Ulysses — “ 

Parts  of  Locksley  Hall. 

Sonnets : 

The  World  Is  Too  Much  With  Us — Wordsworth. 
Wyckliffe— 

To  Cyriak  Skinner — Milton. 

4.  Composition — 80  minutes  per  week. 

Narration,  description,  exposition.  Subject  matter  from 
other  lessons  of  the  grade ; also'  from  the  pupil’s  ex- 
perience outside  the  school-room.  The  character 
sketch,  the  toast,  the  story  of  adventure ; imaginary 
conversations,  dreams,  ghost  stories.  Attention  to 
structure.  Oral  discussion  of  current  events. 

5.  Grammar — 4 lessons  of  30  minutes  each,  per  week. 

The  sentence — all  kinds. 

Con  j ugation — Mood. 

Complete  analysis  of  sentences. 

Use  of  the  diagram. 

Clausal  constructions. 

Participles  and  infinitives. 

The  gerund  in  English. 


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